How to import your Pocket export (and read it again)

If you exported your Pocket data before the lights went out, you're holding a slightly awkward souvenir: a ZIP file full of links with nowhere to live. This guide turns it back into a working, readable library in about four minutes — free, no account.

What you need

• Your Pocket export file — the ZIP Pocket/Mozilla provided during the shutdown window (check your downloads and email attachments; searching your mail for “Pocket export” usually finds it).
• Any modern browser on your phone or computer.

Step 1 — Unzip the export

Double-click the ZIP. Inside you'll find at least one .html file — often named like part_000000.html. That file is a plain list of every article you ever saved, with its original save date. That's the one we want. (A CSV may be in there too; use the HTML.)

Step 2 — Open Bookplate

Open the app. There's nothing to sign up for — the library it creates lives in your browser, on your device.

Step 3 — Import

Tap the ⚙ Settings button, choose Import → Choose file, and select the HTML file from step 1. Bookplate reads the list, keeps each link's original saved date, skips duplicates, and files everything into your library.

NOTE — THE APP IS FREE AND UNLIMITED, SO YOUR WHOLE POCKET FILE COMES ACROSS IN ONE GO, HOWEVER BIG IT IS.

Step 4 — Get readable copies

Imported items arrive as links. Tap one and Bookplate fetches the article and strips it to a clean reader view, stored offline from then on. Do this for the pieces you actually plan to read — no need to fetch all of them.

Step 5 — Back it up properly (30 seconds, do it)

Settings → Export downloads your entire library — links, articles, dates, stars — as one JSON file. Put it wherever you keep things that matter. This is the whole point of the exercise: from now on, your library is a file you hold, and no shutdown can touch it again.

If something goes wrong

• “Couldn't read that file” — you've likely picked the CSV or the ZIP itself. Use the .html file inside the ZIP.
• An article won't fetch — some sites block reading tools. Use the Save it by hand option (paste the text) or open the original link.

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